History of Society Chapters

History of the IEEE Toronto Section – Society Chapters

A Society Chapter is formed in the Section to create technical programs that are within the technical purview of the Society. Because the Chapter is also a unit of the Society, it has access to experts and technical content
associated with the Society. Many Societies provide technical speakers for Chapter meetings at no charge to the Chapter or the Section. Joint-chapters combine the expertise of two or more Societies.

This is most recent information recovered and not yet validated. The chapters are listed with the earliest-formed at the top of the list.

Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society Chapter, DEI32, founded on August 7, 1978.

This chapter is unusual as it is a joint chapter of the Toronto, Kingston, Kitchener – Waterloo, Hamilton, and London Sections. It seems that it was meant to be a Chapter of the CCC (Central Canada Council). In fact, the only section of the CCC not mentioned in the records is the Peterborough Section, established on November 23, 1985, that is, after this chapter was founded.

Chair

Start date

End date

M. Kurtz

Aug. 1, 1978

Jul. 1, 1987

John C Chan

Dec. 1, 1987

Dec. 31, 1998

Hugh Zhu

Jan. 1, 1999

Dec. 31, 2002

Jody P Levine

Jan. 1, 2003

present

Computer Society Chapter, C16, founded on December 7, 1981.

Chair

Start date

End date

Stephen L. Dunik (founder)

Jul. 1, 1981

Jun. 30, 1985

Michael F. F. Weitz

Jul. 1, 1985

Apr. 30, 1986

Murry C Bookman (Unverified: conflicting records )

May 1, 1986

Jul. 31, 1987

Stephen W Vetter

Jun. 1, 1987

Jun. 30, 1989

Raed (Ray) M Milhem

Jul. 1, 1993

Dec. 31, 1995

Michael Stumm

Jan. 1, 1996

Dec. 31, 2000

Angelos Bilas

Jan. 1, 2001

Dec. 31, 2001

Robert L Hudyma

Jan. 1, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

George V. Bailak

Jan. 1, 2003

present

Circuits and Devices Chapter, founded on August 12, 1988.

As a Joint Chapter of the Circuits and Systems Society, the Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society, the Electron Devices Society, and the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society.

Chair

Start date

End date

Bruno N Di Stefano (founder)

Aug. 1, 1988

Jun. 30, 1989

Jingming Xu

Jul. 1, 1989

Jun. 30, 1993

Keith Lee

Jul. 1, 1994

Jun. 30, 1997

Hope W Chik

Jan. 1, 1998

Dec. 31, 1998

Edward H Sargent

Jan. 1, 1999

Dec. 31, 2000

Emanuel Istrate

Jan. 1, 2001

present

Engineering and Human Environment Chapter, founded in 1989

As a chapter of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, and reorganized in August 31, 1993 as a joint chapter of the IEEE Education Society, the IEEE Engineering Management Society, the IEEE Professional Communication Society, the IEEE Reliability Society, and the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.

Chair

Start date

End date

Walter Zessner (founder)

1989

Aug. 31, 1993 (as SSIT)

Walter Zessner

Aug. 31, 1993

Oct. 16, 2004 (as E&HE)

Ed Lovrek

Oct. 16, 2004

present

Signals and Applications Chapter, founded on May 19, 1993.

As a joint chapter of the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the Oceanic Engineering Society, the Signal Processing Society, the Ultrasound, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, and the Vehicular Technology Society.

Chair

Start date

End date

Xiang Y. Gao (founder)

Nov. 1, 1993

Jun. 30, 1997

Patrick G Gulak

Jan. 1, 1997

Dec. 31, 2000

Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Jan. 1, 2001

Dec. 31, 2002

Michael L Mcguire

Jan. 1, 2003

Oct. 4, 2003

Sridar Krishnan

Oct. 4, 2003

Aug. 11, 2005

Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter, founded on June 28, 1993.

As a joint chapter of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, the Antennas and Propagation Society, and the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society.

Chair

Start date

End date

Tahera E. Vandeventer (founder)

Jun. 1, 1993

Dec. 31, 2000

Ramesh Abhari

Jan. 1, 2001

Oct. 4, 2003

George Eleftheriades

Oct. 4, 2003

present

Solid-State Circuits Society Chapter, SSC37, founded on June 8, 2000.

Chair

Start date

End date

Raymond Y.V. Chik

Jun. 28, 2000

–

Vasilis Papanikolaou

–

Aug., 2007

Dustin Dunwell

Aug., 2007

present

Industry Application Society Chapter, founding date unknown.

Was inactive for several years – reinstated with October 23, 2003 meeting. No prior records are available at this time.

Chair

Start date

End date

Vince Scaini

Oct. 23, 2003

present

Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, founded on April 29, 2003.

Bruno Di Stefano initiated this chapter as the Neural Networks Society Chapter with a meeting on April 29, 2003. In June 2003, the IEEE Board of Directors approved a change of name to the Computational Intelligence Society.

Chair

Start date

End date

Bruno Di Stefano

Apr. 29, 2003

present

Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society Chapter, founded on May 9, 2007.

Created as an independent chapter, splitting from the Signals and Computational Intelligence Chapter.

Chair

Start date

End date

Hassan Kojori

May 9, 2007

present

Signal Processing Chapter, founded on August 12, 2005.

Chair

Start date

End date

Sridhar Krishnan

Aug. 12, 2005

Dec. 11, 2015

Mehrnaz Shokrollahi

Dec. 11, 2015

present

Chapter History – the Work Ahead

We hope to verify our records before the celebration of our Centennial. We hope also that each society chapter web page may become a little archive of that chapter history. Please visit all our chapter pages and see if you can contribute any information, by contacting:

The Chair of the chapter for which you have information, please see individual pages for the e-mail address